The Creators Project is a collaboration between Intel and Vice which sees how computers are shaping the future of creative thinking and application. A hugely ambitious project, featuring many of the world’s best ambassadors in the creative fields, it’s great to go behind the curtain, meet the people, and see how they continuously push their craft. Click here and prepare to lose a good bit of your day.

This short film is by identical twins, the Quay brothers, for Comme des Garcons latest perfume. Wonderwood is a haunting wooden world of windows, doors, puppets and parquet floors. Given complete creative freedom on the project all they had to reference was the smell of the new fragrance which they repeatedly sprayed and walked through during production.

What better way to start this grey Tuesday than with this little ditty, ‘Even Your Friend’ by The Chap. Aurally interesting, the video by the good guys at Non-Format really brings the playfulness to life. You can listen to their whole album here.

OFFSET2010 speaker Steve ‘Espo’ Powers and Chiho Aoshima have teamed up with Absolut to produce 2 unique bottles each for a promotion called The Art Of Sharing. The bottles are seriously cool, as is the animation below. Can’t wait to see Steve rocking Grand Canal Theatre in October, it’s all about to start feeling very real. More pics and info here.

Words can’t describe how amazing I think this is. The latest, and in my opinion greatest, animation so far by Blu is absolutely killer. “Big Bang Big Boom, A Short Unscientific Story about Evolution and His Consequences” is a massive undertaking and realised with a real, beautiful feel. So, grab yourself your nearest and dearest, and kick back for 10 minutes and take it all in.

LOVE IT! Johnny Kelly does it again!

This trailer was commissioned by YouTube to publicise an event they are organising in partnership with the Guggenheim. Any non-commercial video from the last two years is eligible to be included in the YouTube Play exhibition at the New York Guggenheim museum held in October 2010.

The brief was to allude to the eclectic and diverse content you expect to see each time you press play on YouTube. A series of worlds were created from the ground up, with production designer Graham Staughton and his team created everything in the video by hand, including a (nearly) full size cave.

The latest animation featuring Craig ‘Rinzen’ Redman’s character creation Darcel is so lovely, each and every detail obviously well considered and beautifully realised. He’s just had his first show in Colette too, this guy definitely gets around. He recently also found some time to watch ‘2 Girls, 1 Cup’, not good.

PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York and ponders the age old question…’What would happen if New York was invaded by 8-bit pixel creatures?’

Credits:
Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard
SFX by Patrick Jean and guests
Produced by One More Production

OFFSHOOT is a series of special one night events bringing together the best local and international creative talent to speak about their work and working process.

ADMISSION is 8EURO and are available NOW at OFFSHOOT

//Speakers

New Graphic /Graphic Design

New Graphic is Dublin based graphic design agency run by Dave and Diarmuid. They do all the usual graphic design stuff but the difference is they do it sooo well.
www.newgraphic.ie

Serge Seidlitz /Illustration

Following his great presentation at OFFSET2009 where we got such a detailed description of his career up to the age of 16, we thought it would be a good ideas to invite Serge back to Dublin to continue his story.
www.sergeseidlitz.com

Tomm Moore from Cartoon Saloon /Animation

Having returned from LA where his animation feature The Secret of Kells was richly deserved of its Oscar nomination we get the low down on what dress he was wearing.
http://www.cartoonsaloon.com

OFFSHOOT is brought to you by the team behind OFFSET2009, the annual 3 day creative which last year featured the strongest line-up of creatives ever seen in Ireland including…Massimo Vignelli, Chip Kidd, James Jean, House Industries, The London Police, Sir Peter Blake, Oliver Jeffers, Pentagram, Dave McKean, Experimental Jetset, Tara McPherson and many more.

April 22ND 2010
@ The Sugar Club
Leeson Street, Dublin 2.

Visit here for more details.

Supported by The Small Print

Showcasing the simple format of GIF, ‘I Am Not An Artist’ is the latest collaboration between Johnny Kelly and I Am Not An Artist is the latest project by Matthew Cooper. Created as a platform for young designers to showcase their creativity, the first 50+ versions were created by the 2 guys themselves and all are realised with real originality.